it's time for our 10-year health check...

we will be off air for some time while we redevelop the site into one that will be relevant for the next ten years.

the new site will be different...

meanwhile, you can find all the stories we published here, and more, at sustainapedia.com

What's Next for the Web of Hope?

We're going back to basics...

There's plenty going on at planet Earth. Most of it (let's be honest) through humankind's agency. You may disagree with any one aspect of this, but when the impact of all our activity is added together it's a no-brainer. We've put the sustainability-only track at sustainapedia.com.

The Web of Hope is returning as a permeable, emergent, multifaceted, tensegral community of inspiration, ideas and actions that forsee, envisage, paint, sing and dance the new world into reality. Be a part of it. Contact us now.

There is a myth that 'hope' is passive, yielding, pious and fatalistic. That's a description of hopelessness.

We're going back to basics...

...it's over to you.

contact

If you are an artist, thinker, technologist, futurologist, student, academic, policymaker, journalist, blogger, wise old person, callow youth - or somewhere in between - if you are interested in developing ways to help make a better world, do get in touch. This is your project.

final word

With the day comes

Hope, which is strength, the means

To carry on, for no reason other

Than the inevitability of breath,

That one follows another, that

Drives the heartbeat.

"Either we have Hope within us or we do not. Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.

Hope in this deep and powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

It is Hope, above all, which gives the strength to live and continually try new things."